Hillary and Bill Clinton got rich quick after leaving the White House, pulling in $111 million in total income from 2000 through last year, according to tax documents posted Friday evening on her presidential campaign’s website.

From the combined $358,000 they reported in 2000 to the $16 million they earned in 2001, their income increased by nearly 50 times in the first year after Bill Clinton left office, highlighting the lucrative opportunities awaiting former presidents.

The speaking circuit was especially good to Bill Clinton, who earned nearly $52 million from it, including millions in foreign income. And the two books each penned yielded more than $40 million, including an eye-popping $15 million advance paid to Bill Clinton for his 2004 autobiography, “My Life.” That’s $3 million more than what had been previously reported – which at the time was believed to be the largest book advance ever.

Hillary Clinton’s two books – the autobiography “Living History” and “It Takes a Village” – yielded $10.5 million. She paid $893,000 in “collaboration fees and expenses” (for assistance in researching and writing her autobiography), as well as $5,000 for a Lexis/Nexis subscription and Internet access.

When you add the book hauls to the more than $1 million she received in salary since taking office in 2001 as a senator from New York, it’s clear she had more than enough money to loan $5 million to her cash-strapped presidential campaign in the run-up to the Feb. 5 Super Tuesday contests.

The documents were eagerly anticipated by reporters, opposition researchers and gadflies of all stripes in part because it was unclear where she got the coin to back her February claim that the loan came “from my money. That’s where I got the money.”

The 221 pages of documents released Friday – actually 220 pages of tax returns for 2000 through 2006, plus a one-page summary of the couple’s 2007 taxes – came after weeks of pressure from opponents, who have long accused the Clintons of having a penchant for secrecy. The pressure escalated last week when Clinton’s rival for the Democratic presidential nomination, Illinois Sen. Barack Obama, made public his returns, at which time Clinton said she hoped to release hers “within the next week.”

The document dump came more than one week later, late on a Friday afternoon, diminishing the likelihood most media outlets would be able to quickly conduct a detailed analysis and ensuring the story would land over the weekend, when people tend to pay less attention to the news media.

It’s become increasingly common for presidential candidates to release their tax returns or portions thereof, and with Clinton’s Friday release, more than 25 years of her family’s tax returns are now publicly available.

The Clintons’ tax returns from 1980 through 1991 were made public during Bill Clinton’s 1992 presidential campaign. The White House released the couple’s returns in each year of the Clinton administration.

That level of disclosure, asserted Clinton campaign spokesman Jay Carson, is “a record matched by few people in public service.”

Arizona Sen. John McCain, the presumptive Republican nominee, did not release his returns during his unsuccessful 2000 bid for his party’s presidential nomination.

This time around, he will, but not until “mid April,” according to spokeswoman Jill Hazelbaker.

The Clintons’ returns show that since 2000, they paid nearly $34 million in federal taxes and donated more than $10 million to charities, including to their family foundation.

Unlike Obama and his wife, Michelle, the Clintons checked the box to set aside $3 for the presidential public financing system on their returns each year. Hillary Clinton has not indicated whether she’d participate in the system if she won the nomination.

The documents reveal other interesting bits of new information – and raise some new questions that could prove fodder for opponents – about the life of a family that’s already been intensely scrutinized.

The returns show more than $50,000 in income (and $40,000 in losses) in 2006 from funds with the name Quellos, an asset manager accused in a scathing bipartisan 2006 Senate committee report of structuring "tax shelters."

The Clintons received an extension in each of the last three years and they intend to request one for 2007. That’s because they are waiting to receive details on partnership income, including investments made by their blind trust, the campaign said in a statement. It was dissolved last year.

The Clintons claimed more than $650,000 in foreign tax credits for more than $8 million in foreign income, which Carson said “was from speeches President Clinton made abroad and from income from the blind trust.”

From 2001 to 2006, the Clintons collected nearly $41,000 in “imputed interest” from loans to family. Carson wouldn’t reveal the indebted family members or the circumstances of the loans, calling that information “personal; the Clintons are going to respect their family members’ privacy.”

During her last year as first lady, Hillary Clinton’s occupation was listed “attorney,” which Carson said “was simply a decision made by the tax preparer.”

The Clintons paid $39,000 in tax preparation costs in the covered period.

They paid $459,000 in mortgage interest on their home in suburban New York.

Hillary Clinton in 2002 paid $8,650 for the preparation of her Senate financial disclosure statement, though Carson said “none of it was deducted due to tax law limitations.”

The last year the Clintons listed their daughter, Chelsea, as a dependent was 2002, during which she turned 22 years old.